The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26
GENERAL RAILWAY NEWS.
Matters of Money aud Management
About Various Lines.

Griffin, Ga, complains that the Georgia
Midland discriminates against her In freight
rates.
! BY the building of the Cascade division
the Northern Pacific earned about z, 1000, 900
acres of land.
The statement of the Memphis and
Charleston for the year ending June 30
shows: Gross earnings 81, 643,513 increase
1919, 1884; operating expenses 81, 49,, ADJ, in
crease S25S,276; net earnings Sf4S,022 in
crease $6l ,70S; car trust payment SOL ,54l,
interest 1915, $50, surplus 9,SOl.
A construction train was sent TO Ameri-
Gus from Macon Wednesday, to be used in
the work on tho Buena Vista and Ellaville
railroad. One hundred and thirty-one
hands are now at work between Americas
and Lacrosse, AMI if no further delays &C.
cur the road will be completed in about two
weeks.
Secretary A. J. Smith, of the National
Association of General Passenger and Ticket
Agents, has issued a circular announcing
that the semi annual meeting of the associa-
ton will be held at st. Paul, Mimi, at the
Hotel Ryan, on Tuesday Sept 20 Blank
credentials will be furnished new members
at the meeting
The statement of the East Tennessee, Vir-
ginia and Georgia for the year ending June
30 shows: Gro Innings 81, 1903, $50, increase
9DcJ,CoJ, IjtIlSeS S%,JVI 40, III
crease S496, 9l5; net earnings 81, 466, 952 i'll
crease So, pa; interest paid 1854, 435, taxes
Sll2, 463, dividend on preferred stock S440,-
600, interest due S9S,90S; surplus $Sl, l45.
Edgefield Advertiser: A largo force of
hands will be put to work at Camden on
Monday to commence laying the track of
the Three C's road. A large quantity of
steel rails are piled up there waiting for the
track layers, and the work will be pushed
on as rapidly as possible. The roadbed has
been graded and most of the trestles have
been built SO the work OF laying the track
can be pushed on with great rapidity. 1t
is confidently expected that trains will be
running from Camden to Lancaster, dis
lance of forty miles, by October, and
that from that time ON heavy freight trains
will arrive in Charleston every day from the
line of the Three C's.
Comptroller General Wright has received
the returns of the Rome and Carrollton rail
road. The value of the road. as returned,
is $50, 800, an increase over 1886 of $500
The road is q small road, its equipment
being indicated by the statement that it has
only one locomotive. Our citizens are
anxious that some steps be taken towards
building the jefferson railroad" says the
Athens Banner Waterman. I'VE conf
IDENTIFY believe that if some enterprising
man will devote a little time to this enter
built. Who will take hold of it! This road
will be good feeder to Athens, and if $l5
900 in cash is raised it can be built"
1t is announced that the Louisville and
Nashville, the Illinois Central and the Mis-
siSSippi Valley railroads have determined to
meet the drayage cut of the Northeastern,
amounting to &c. per 100 on freight to com
petitive points, says New Orleans special.
The rate went into effect Monday The his
Of 10 hria FOL Tho
Northeastern, ever since its competition,
has been giving a drayage equalization of
rate, based on the greater distance of its de-
pot from business centres than those of
other roads, of &c. per 100. Five days ago
the Louisville and Nashville announced that
to protect its business it would have to give
the same rate and the Mississippi Valley
followed suit. Two days afterward the
Northeastern announced further cut of
&C., which the other two roads, with the adj
dition of the Illinois Central, now meet as
described,
A corps of seventeen men, in charge of the
chief engineer OF the construction depart
menU OF the Illinois Central railway, arrived
at Raleigh Saturday evening, and will con
sumo this week, and perhaps part of next,
in masing the survey from that
reach Memphis the entire survey of
the proposed line from jackson, Tenn,
to Montgomery, Ala, via Browns
vile, will have been completed, and they
will commence Immediately to survey an
other contemplated route from Memphis to
Cairo. The line from Memphis to jackson
will be ninety miles long, while the one to
Cairo, which it is proposed to run as close
to the Mississippi river as it is practicable
for the entire distance, will be something
near 200 miles in length. 1t is certain that
the Illinois Central will bnild on these two
lines in the near future, but which one the
gentlemen connected with the company,
who are now in the city, are unable to tell.
Certain it is that one of the lines will be CON
structed as the only outlet the Illinois Cen
trail now has from Memphis to the Missis-
sippi and Tennessee road, which taps it 100
miles to the south.
Americas Recorder: Supt Bass of the
Americas, Preston and Lumpkin railroad,
informs us that work ON the eastern division
of the road Is progressing as rapidly and
satisfactorily as could be wished under the
existing circumstances. The damages to
the Flint river bridge by the late food have
been repaired, and he thinks that trains
will be permitted TO cross again by Friday
next. When the river began rising he very
wisely had a large supply of rails carried to
the other side, and consequently the work
of track laying has not been delayed by the
accident to the bridge, but instead, has been
pushed forward as rapidly as possible.
Fifty-one miles of track have been
laid on this end of the line, and as
the surfacing gang follow close on to the
track-layers thework is completed as fast
as it progresses The grading has been fin
ished to Abbeville, distance OF sixty mics,
and the road is now completed to within 10
miles of that place, and if no delay occurs
in the work on the bridge to prevent the
carrying over of material, will no doubt
reach there by Sept 10 at farthest. The
surveying corps have long since crossed the
Ocmulgee river and are engaged in making
preliminary surveys between Abbeville and
points on the East Tennessee, Virginia aud
Georgia railroad, running lines to both Nc
Rae and Neville, both Of which places are
striving hard to secure the road. The con-
tract for the bridge over the Ocmulgee has
been let, and altogether the work is pro-
crossing in a most satisfactory manner to
the officials of the road. Hundreds of con
tented hands are engaged on the work, and
If everything continues to move along as
smoothly as at present we will reach the
ocean before we know it."
The Centrars Decatur Extension,
The Central railroad has surveying